SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 16 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 8 of 100

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Fill in the Blank: During India’s BRICS Chairship in 2021, key initiatives included the Digital Health Summit and the ______ for environmental cooperation.

(a)BRICS Water Security Pact
(b)BRICS Alliance for Green Tourism
(c)BRICS Climate Finance Agreement
(d)BRICS Sustainable Energy Forum

Answer

Why

Correct — B. The New Delhi Declaration of the XIII BRICS Summit, 9 September 2021, congratulates India for convening the BRICS Digital Health Summit.

The same declaration appreciates 'the launch of the BRICS alliance for Green Tourism' to shape a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive tourism sector → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
BRICS Water Security Pact — Water security pact is not in the declaration. The environmental initiative it appreciates is the BRICS alliance for Green Tourism.
(c)
BRICS Climate Finance Agreement — Climate Finance Agreement is not among the outcomes the New Delhi Declaration commends. The green initiative it names beside its action plans is the Alliance for Green Tourism.
(d)
BRICS Sustainable Energy Forum — Energy cooperation runs through the BRICS Energy Research Cooperation Platform, which the declaration welcomes. It names no Sustainable Energy Forum among 2021's outcomes.

Concept

India held the BRICS chairship in 2021 and hosted the XIII Summit in digital format on 9 September, under the theme 'BRICS@15: Intra-BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus'.

The New Delhi Declaration commends outcomes adopted that year, among them the BRICS Counter-Terrorism Action Plan and the Alliance for Green Tourism, and welcomes the launch of the BRICS Agricultural Research Platform.

Key facts

The XIII BRICS Summit was held in digital format on 9 September 2021, chaired by India.
The New Delhi Declaration appreciates the launch of the BRICS Alliance for Green Tourism.
It congratulates India for convening the BRICS Digital Health Summit.
It also commends the adoption of the BRICS Counter-Terrorism Action Plan.

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Common traps

Picking a water or climate option because 'environmental cooperation' sounds like those fields. The declaration's green initiative is tourism.
Taking the Digital Health Summit as the blank. It is already in the stem, and the blank asks for the other initiative.

India's 2021 presidency is also asked at 13 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.6 (keyed BRICS Startup Forum), and a BRICS institution at 14 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.6 (the New Development Bank's Americas office, keyed São Paulo).

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